Biography & Memoir

A History of Football in 100 Objects
Gavin Mortimer
The remarkable stories of 100 football artefacts that have shaped the game as we know it.

Mouths of Babes
Stella Duffy
This book shouldn't just be seen as a great piece of crime writing; it's a fine novel, as good as anything you'll read this year from a…

What In God's Name
Simon Rich
How can you help mankind, when they won't help themselves? Welcome to Heaven Inc, and Craig's life.

Albert of Adelaide
Howard L. Anderson
A story of the Australian Outback, a duck-billed platypus on a quest, and what it means to be a hero.

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
Melissa P.
Love may be hard to find, but sex waits at every turn

Black by Design
Pauline Black
Lead singer of legendary band The Selecter on music, family and roots. *New, updated edition covers The Selecter's recent reunion*

The Last Patriarch
Najat El Hachmi
A riveting debut novel of fathers and daughters, and the conflict between duty and desire, set in rural Morocco and urban Cataluña

School For Patriots
Martin Kohan
Set during the time of the Falklands War – a shocking exposure of the moral degradation that contaminated institutions of Argentinian society

Ru
Kim Thuy
A book of rare beauty: Ru is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. Was Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.

The Imperative Mood
Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell moves from the interrogative to the imperative mood in this exclusive short

Wavewalker
Stella Duffy
Clever, cunning and careful to avoid the obvious, Wavewalker is a real treat